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SparkNC and District C’s Teamship program awarded $1.1 million grant

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SparkNC and District C have been awarded a $1.1 million grant to support their STEM career-readiness program. 

The grant is expected to be distributed over two years. Funds will go toward supporting Spark NC and District C’s Teamship program. In Teamship, students collaborate to provide solutions for the program’s business partners. Hundreds of high schoolers across 20 school districts have participated. 

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The collaboration was one of 30 programs that received funding from the American Student Assistance organization. ASA distributed $17 million across 14 states. Grant recipients were selected for providing “access to opportunities to improve career readiness outcomes for middle and high schoolers, specifically in the areas of work-based learning, social capital, education and career pathways, and career exploration,” the press release read.

“Meaningful internship opportunities are too often limited to a subset of students with social capital and family connections. We are thrilled to have the support of ASA as we work with our partners at SparkNC to scale innovative, accessible internship opportunities to more students in North Carolina through our Spark Teamship program,” Dan Gonzalez, co-founder and CEO of District C, said in a statement.

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“At ASA, over the past five years, our philanthropic grantmaking efforts in the youth career readiness arena have been critical in gaining valuable insight on what works best for young people, fueling innovation, expanding opportunity, elevating voices, and informing needed policy change,” Julie Lammers, executive vice president of ASA, said in the press release.

More information about the Teamship program along with SparkNC and District C can be found here.